a not-so-new kind of theme park
in northeastern siberia, there's an ice age wildlife park [that's right]. i don't know the extent of its species range, except that it currently contains musk ox, wild horses, and they're considering the purchase of bison from canada. okay fine. i'm not exactly sure how that would make it solely an "ice age" wildlife park, except for it's newest potential member: a woolly mammoth. recently, a male mammoth was excavated from beneath the siberian permafrost, and japanese scientists are hoping to be able to extract some sperm from the dead animal's testicles. if they can do this, they then want to impregnate an indian elephant [the closest anatomical relative] with the mammoth's sperm. then once the mutt grows up, they want to impregnate that one with mammoth sperm, and so on, in order to purify the breed. they figure that in 50 years, they can have an animal 88% pure mammoth. hmm. i want to see them clone a dodo bird. those things are weird-looking. Matt @ 3:15 PM